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The Flute Concert of Sanssouci
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Wikipedia article
'The Flute Concert of Sanssouci' is a 1930 German drama film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Otto Gebhr. It was part of the popular cycle of Prussian films.Hoffmann p. 44 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Herlth and Walter Rhrig. Location filming took place around the Berlin area including at the Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam.
Plot
In 1756, a masked ball was officially celebrated in the Dresden Palais of the Saxon Minister Heinrich von Brhl. Unofficially, however, talks are taking place with the envoys of Austria, Russia and France with the aim of conspiring against the Prussian King Frederick II. The Prussian envoy, Major von Lindeneck, noticed this incident and succeeded in bringing a copy of the concluded secret treaty to the Prussian king. Friedrich he consults with his generals, who urge caution. Friedrich is stunned by the reaction and now develops a counter-plan. To do this, he sends von Lindeneck back to Dresden. However, the latter is not very enthusiastic about this, as he thinks he has reason to doubt his wife Blanche's marital fidelity, and she now has to leave her alone. However, loyalty to the king is more important to him and he carries out all the orders of the Prussian king. When the envoys of Austria, Russia and France ask for an audience with Friedrich, he gives a flute concerto to gain time, which is based on the famous picture by Adolph von Menzel. In the course of this concert he receives the telegram from Vienna that completely uncovers the plot. He ends the concert and has the envoy hand over the declaration of war. He goes outside and announces that he has just given them the marching orders for the regiments. The Seven Years' War begins.
Cast
* Otto Gebhr as Friedrich II
* Renate Mller as Blanche von Lindeneck
* Hans Rehmann as Major von Lindeneck
* Walter Janssen as Maltzahn
* Raoul Aslan as Heinrich von Brhl
* Friedrich Kayler as Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein
* Carl Goetz as Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf
* Aribert Wscher as Poellnitz
* Margarete Schn as Princess Amalie
* Theodor Loos as Menzel
* Hans Brausewetter as Correspondent
* Paul Biensfeldt as Johann Joachim Quantz
* Vladimir Sokoloff as Russian Envoy
* Friedrich Khne as Schwerin
* Alfred Beierle as Wolf Frederick von Retzow
* Georg John as Ziethen
* Theo Lingen as Kent
References
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